Fairland Park AGM will be at the Falkland Centre 7pm, Thursday 23rd July.
The entrance to the Falkland Centre is on Frobisher Rd, by Harringay Passage.
Agenda
1. Re-development update
2. Accounts
3. Park events
Hope to see there
Matt Burge
Fairland Park AGM.
July 9, 2009 by mattFairland Park Summer Party
June 23, 2009 by matt
Meeting regards Summer Party
May 20, 2009 by matt
The Fairland Park Summer Party is Sunday July 12th, 12 – 4pm.
We are meeting Wed June 3rd, 8pm at The Salisbury to organise the above event.
We would appreciate your help with this community event no matter how big or small.
If any musicians would like to come along and play please contact Adam or Matt via this discussion on HOL.
News update for Fairland Park.
April 19, 2009 by mattHi all,
A number of items to update on;
1. We have had success with a funding bid for £5000 from East London Community Foundation. We put in for various activities & items including for more activities at this year’s Summer Fair. Monies are also there for a noticeboard, gazebos and a badgemaker. We are aiming to involve more community groups as well. The Friends committee will meet shortly to finalise the spending details.
2. Fairland Park Summer Party is booked for Sunday July 12th, 12-4pm.
3. Re-development update: Groundwork have been appointed project managers by the council and have now gone away to arrange tendering and deal with a mountain of regulation & paperwork. Groundwork aim to have a chosen developer onsite by October.
4. This website has just hit 3000 views or hits since inception. The main interest is in this post. Locally, interest is of course more with our events and funding.
5. Will announce a date for a Friends Group meeting soon which will concentrate largely on organising this years Summer Fair in the park.
Matt
Fairland Park
March 6, 2009 by mattIt has finally been confirmed that our little open space is now officially called Fairland Park. For visitors from afar it has been known as Falkland Fairfax open space as these are the names of the two roads either side of the open space.
In 2008 children at the local schools were given the chance to come up with a new name. They chose Fairland. Debate then moved onto whether we used the term ‘open space’, ‘common’ or ‘park’.
The council had to have their input as well, particularly on the legality of using the word ‘park’. In the end the majority of local people went for ‘park’ and the council have just given the go-ahead.
So there it is, a very small but important historical moment. The next generation will know it as Fairland Park!
Council announces funding success!!
February 14, 2009 by matt
The re-development of our local open space has been given a significant boost with the announcement by the council that council funding has been secured.
This is excellent news for our local community. Persistence has paid off with some very hard work from Paul Formosa (Community Development officer), staff at charity Groundwork and members of our Friends Group.
The £150,000 from the council adds to £35,000 secured from London Marathon Trust. A Community Spaces application has been submitted (stage II) for £49,000. We hope to hear the good news from CS soon.
Update: 08/06/09
We have recently heard very good news from Community Spaces. We have been successful in our application for funds for £49,000. That takes our total for fund raising to £235,000 and means Groundwork will now move ahead to tendering stage soon. 
Funding update – Good news!
December 16, 2008 by matt
The Friends of the open space have been successful in securing £35,335 in funding from the London Marathon Trust. This is great news, a very positive and promising start!
We have also been successful with getting through the first stage for the Community Spaces funding bid, which is for £46,000. There is a second stage still to get through on this one.
The main monies we await are from council funding decisions, which is not due till the new year. Will keep you posted.
Have a Merry Christmas.
Matt
FFFOS
P.S. See here for details of the open space re-development if you are not familiar with the plans.
The GreenSpace website.
November 7, 2008 by mattGreenSpace are a registered charity which works to improve parks and green spaces by raising awareness, involving communities and creating skilled professionals.
The site runs a Community Network including a forum for all those questions about running events, fund raising and so on.
GreenSpaces advertises events, jobs and has a bi-monthly magazine with an online newsletter.
Take a look.
Ladder Summer fete photos – great event, thank you all!
July 20, 2008 by matt
Punk salsa!
Sunny day!!
Thanks to Harringay online for these photos.
And thank you to Sarah Ninot for the following images, showing talented up and upcoming musicians … and the sack race.
It was a fantastic day, with wonderful food brought along by all, excellent entertainment from local musicians, a salsa class, comedy, face painting and art yurt. And didn’t that sun shine!
Thank you everyone for pulling it all together. Well over 300 people came along and I know that people thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
Ladder Summer Fete
July 10, 2008 by matt
It’s here! The social event of the year for ‘ladder’ residents. Sunday 13th July, 12 – 4pm. We are located between Falkland & Fairfax Rds.
There is seriously fantastic entertainment lined up, with four bands, saxaphonist Shiek Thompson, a comedian, salsa, storytelling and face painting for the kids.
Pop along with food to share and drink.
Looking forward to seeing you all there. :)
